American war Quote by Timothy C.W. Blanning

Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Independence…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

The American Revolution was a small part of a major world war going on between France and England, so the French intervened and that…

— Noam Chomsky

In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact that the…

— Irving Kristol

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

— William E. Gladstone

“Revolutionists who took part in uprisings in one part of the globe would often migrate to take part in uprisings in another. Francisco de…

— Chris Hedges

“Revolution was the great nightmare of eighteenth-century British society, and when first the American Revolution of 1776, then the French Revolution of 1789 overturned…

— Ronald Carter

“America posed a deeply interesting question to any Frenchmen with a political curiosity to ask it. How had Americans launched a revolution that aimed…

— Alan James Ryan

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

— Robert Trout

“For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not the overthrow…

— Bernard Bailyn

The American revolution not only cost Britain the 13 colonies but also forced it to rethink the slave trade and slavery, and influenced its…

— Linda Colley

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

— Bernard Bailyn

The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold…

— Henry David Thoreau